The Rev. Leslie Scoopmire Readings (Feast of Martin of Tours): Isaiah 58:6–12 Psalm 15 Matthew 25:31-40 Some of my favorite childhood...

The Rev. Leslie Scoopmire Readings: Revelation 7:9-17 Psalm 34:1-10, 22 1 John 3:1-3 Matthew 5:1-12 What makes someone a saint? It’s...

The Rev. Leslie Scoopmire Readings: (Proper 25A, track 1) Leviticus 19:1-2,15-18 Psalm 1 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 Matthew 22:34-46 First...

The Rev. Leslie Scoopmire Readings, Proper 24A: Isaiah 45:1-7 Psalm 96:1-9, (10-13) 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 Matthew 22:15-22 When I was a...

--The Rev. Leslie Scoopmire Readings: Isaiah 25:1-9 Psalm 23 Philippians 4:1-9 Matthew 22:1-14 Ah, another Sunday, another gospel reading...

-- The Rev. Leslie Scoopmire Readings for Proper 22A: Isaiah 5:1-7 Psalm 80:7-14 Philippians 3:4b-14 Matthew 21:33-46 I have a pet peeve:...

--the Rev. Leslie Barnes Scoopmire Readings: Ezekiel 18:1-4,25-32 Psalm 25:1-8 Philippians 2:1-13 Matthew 21:23-32 Grumble, grumble,...

-- The Rev. Leslie Scoopmire Readings for Proper 19A: Genesis 50:15-21 Psalm 103:(1-7), 8-13 Romans 14:1-12 Matthew 18:21-35 We are here...

The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 18, year A Readings: Ezekiel 33:7-11 Psalm 119:33-40 Romans 13:8-14 Matthew 18:15-20 Long...

--The Rev. Leslie Scoopmire Readings: Jeremiah 15:15-21 Psalm 26:1-8 Romans 12:9-21 Matthew 16:21-28 Have you ever had an enemy? I know I...

Readings: Isaiah 51:1-6 Psalm 138 Romans 12:1-8 Matthew 16:13-20 Who are we? And who is Jesus? Our reading from Romans asks us if we know...

Readings: Isaiah 56:1,6-8 Psalm 67 Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32 Matthew 15: (10-20), 21-28 Next week, on August 28, is the 60th anniversary of...

Readings: 1 Kings 19:9-18 Psalm 85:8-13 Romans 10:5-15 Matthew 14:22-33 In the dawn of the mornings when I am first to rise, I let our...

Readings: Exodus 34:29-35 Psalm 99 2 Peter 1:13-21 Luke 9:28-36 When I was a kid, my mother bought me a little microscope at a hobby shop...

Today, I thought it might be fun to start with a little bit of show and tell. In your pews, you will find copies of an illustration on a...

Words are powerful things. They get inside us and change us. They combine together and create ideas, and those ideas can inspire us to...

I am pretty certain that, if you don’t remember hearing them and studying them before, the readings we just heard may have you a bit...

A pilot and a priest have died and are waiting in line outside the gates of Heaven for entry. When they reach the front of the line, St....

Today is a day of creation. In our readings we just heard, we were taken from the very first beginnings of this precious Earth upon which...

A group of rabbis gathered one day after a long day of studying the Book of Bereshit, which we call the Book of Genesis. The question...